The key to growing a successful garden is being diligent about planning. While you may like the way a plant looks in one area of your yard, it doesn't necessarily mean that's where the greenery will ...

Determining the best companion plants for the vegetables in my garden has been really confusing. Companion planting is one of those subjects which seems to motivate the creation of charts and ...

Grow sweet alyssum to provide nectar for hoverflies, which feed on aphids. Each spring, I grow legions of onions and shallots from seed, and my biggest challenge is keeping them weeded. Last year, I ...

It’s a fact of life that certain things are infinitely better when paired together: wine and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, chips and guacamole. But this logic doesn’t apply solely in the kitchen.

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...

It is just about that time -- time to plant the summer garden! While many have already started planting those more cold-hardy crops like lettuce, kale and cabbage, our main planting time has yet to ...

I planted my vegetable garden May 21 and it took nearly all day as I worked my garden layout plan. I have eight 4-foot by 8-foot beds so I’m able to rotate my crops. However, I continue to struggle ...

Pumpkins will always grow best when given the ideal environment in which to thrive, and that includes giving them the best companion plants. This guide highlights some of the best vegetables, flowers, ...

Think of how many different kinds of plants grow in a forest or any uncultivated area. Such environments contain a large variety of plants, animals, and insects. Plants thrive in biodiversity. A ...

As you plant flowers in the vegetable garden, play with colors and textures as the author does in her beautiful central California edible landscape. Grow a profusion of pollen- and nectar-rich blooms ...